they will move up the technology ladder, but it is a hard climb. i think one should be skeptical about the corollary. there is another qualification that is more serious. the decline israel, but it is not new. it has been going on since 1945. in fact, it happened very quickly. in the late 1940's, darrius and event known here as the loss of china. china became independent. that is a loss of a huge piece of the grand area of asia. it became a major issue in american domestic policy, who is responsible for a loss of china? the phrase is interesting. like, i cannot lose your computer, right? because i don't own it. i could lose my computer. the phrase "loss of china" presupposes that deeply held principles of american elite consciousness. we own the world. and if some piece of it becomes dependent, we have lost it. it is a terrible loss. we have to do something about it. it is never questioned, which is interesting in and of itself. what about the same time, about 1950, concerns developed about the loss of southeast asia. and that is what led the unite